High Fiber Christmas

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Shaun
www.homeschoolblogger.com/shaunms

Seriously, I don't know how to help here other than to make sure you've got lots of raw veg, possibly with dip, to offer. What is your DH having before Christmas? It seems to have gotten clipped in your post.

Lynn Siprelle, Editor

Jillian had a yummy sounding date bar thing posted in the recipe box, made with whole grain. That might work - you could always sprinkle metamucil on top of everything

I am trying to follow a high fibre diet for medical reasons at the moment and am running out of ideas. I have changed to brown everything (bread, rice, pasta) and am having bran flakes for breakfast with raisins and extra bran on top (yum ) I am so sick of the bran flakes but dont know what else to have. I hate porridge, but have bought some today in desperation, anything is better than more flipping bran Trying to increase fruits and veggies too.

I printed a list off the internet of the top 20 or so fibre-rich foods and am including as many of them as possible, but I am getting very bored and don't have many meal ideas.

I am quite worried about Christmas and what the heck I am going to eat. We spend it with my parents and, aside from the veggies with Christmas dinner a lot of the food around is likely to be the complete opposite of what I should be eating.

Any high fibre meal ideas? Easy to cook and not involving baking please! (Haven't got as far as baking )

Oops -- DH is having surgery in an area so unmentionable I must have been blocking it out as I typed!

My mom tells me she has a new recipe for turnip greens with cornmeal dumplings, which would give us some nice greens. And I will lay off the potatoes!

Shaun
www.homeschoolblogger.com/shaunms

Make cornbread with a really coarse ground cornmeal (Red Mill has a nice one) and whole wheat flour. Toss in some whole kernel corn too. For fun, we like to add chopped roasted jalapenos or roasted red peppers and some chopped monterey jack cheese, but that's for fun, not for fiber.

I have to eat plenty of soluble fiber, and avoid insoluble like the plague, so I have a whole huge list in my head of things containing each type of fiber. Lemme know!

The Whole Wheat Date Bars are VERY high fiber (but yummy!). All whole wheat and ground oats, some sugar and shortening, and dates. 'Bout it. Easy too. Other high fiber dishes...my mother-in-law makes an awesome whole wheat upside down apricot cake...I can get the recipe if requested. Hmmm, I notice that I keep mentioning desserts...side dishes...wow, I think that I use the fact that my desserts are high fiber to justify eating more dessert than anything else!! ha ha. We tried using soaked wheat berries in a baked bean dish, but baked beans are high in fiber anyway!! What else...celery sticks, those are high...You can use whole wheat in brownies or choc. chip cookies...wait, dessert again. Sides, sides. I'll keep thinking.
Jillian

I tend to use oat bran or bashed up oats to thicken some stews and soups. It's not a big source but it's a painless way to squeeze in some extra, and better nutrition than cornflour (whatever you Americans call that white powder - cornstarch... I got it!). The main bonus is that nobody realises.

I guess you could also keep bowls of nuts out instead of other nibbles!

Kerri.